When Feminists Trashed Their Bras, They Lost Their Minds

Modern feminism’s principal tenets are about hostility to males, marriage, family, and, yes, children -- unless all bend to feminist edicts. 

J. Robert Smith | September 15, 2026

A fringe of hardcore “second-wave” feminists, who branded themselves the “New York Radical Women,” decided that the 1968 Miss America pageant was a sexist “cattle auction,” reports History. A herd of a couple of hundred of them gathered outside the pageant in Atlantic City to protest.

Beautiful young females in bathing suits -- who opted to participate -- were circuit-blowers for these indignant gals. Judging by photos, the protesters weren’t much to look at. Among feminists, there appears an unwritten rule: The more you look like Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the greater your bona fides. And if you’re a Frida knockoff, you must reflexively envy detest attractive females.

In any event, History says that contrary to reports, pageant protesters didn’t burn their bras. How scurrilous to even suggest such, because the “‘bra-burner’ stereotype [was] used to malign women’s rights activism and belittle feminists’ concerns.” Instead, very sensibly, “protesters did have a ‘freedom trash can’ into which they could throw bras, mascara and other supposed symbols of oppression[.]” But not their dads’ or husbands’ credit cards and checkbooks, we’ll guess. Oh, and a bra is a symbol?

There’s no report that Gloria Steinem was in attendance, but she certainly was in spirit.

Steinem died earlier this month. She was feted by corporate media as sort of a feminist George Washington. Let’s call Steinem a Washington of destruction. She backed abortion, ballyhooed the pill, celebrated sexual promiscuity, and routinely demeaned marriage -- though she wound up marrying and was left widowed. In retrospect, her quest for female “liberation” was an act of nihilism, intentional or not. Nihilism is the cancer eating away at contemporary feminism.

The harm Steinem did to marriage, family, and the unborn is incalculable. Yet she’s acclaimed by women who live by feminism’s twisted credo like it’s the Ten Commandments.

According to Harper’s Bazaar, September 3:

Born in 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, Steinem was the face of the ’60s second-wave feminism movement,........

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